I consider myself fortunate I grew up with a Granny who's attitude was "eat it or starve". No one ever got a special dish 😂 Opened my palette at a young age.
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We were not well off when I was young and at one point my mom got us on welfare. When you have to eat what you get because you can't get naught else, you don't grow up icky nor do you develop "food allergies"